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If a majority of users switch to ad-powered free tiers, a majority of users will see well-written, targeted advice that is ads (lies!) in disguise. This is a horrible future to con…

The author only compared output token costs -- but for typical agentic workloads, input tokens dominate the costs by a large margin. Running inference locally, input tokens are, to…

+1 for introducing them as real-valued functions over cartesian coordinates! Typically, spherical harmonics are introduced as a complex function over spherical coordinates, which m…

Relevant and fun read: The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

> At a pragmatic level, can't you say, hey here's something thats probably nothing, let's scan it again in 6 months If a doctor even _hints_ there might be cancer, the patient will…

At $enterprise, we were just looking for a proper term that sets "responsible vibing" apart from "YOLO vibe coding". We landed on "agent assisted coding". It's a bit more technical…

Nice! I love how mermaid keeps getting better! For sequence-diagrams, nothing beats https://sequencediagram.org/ (I am not connected with them in any way, just a happy user)

I need this, but for heatpump noise. It's mostly broadband noise that can be simulated by simpler methods, but visualizing possible resonance patterns for the low-frequency emissio…

The pronounciation of math symbols is hilarious, but not super useful. Prompt: "Give me Maxwell's equations".

I really like nools, which is a drools clone, but for JavaScript. It's fantastic for quick hacks and for getting to know how to write code for rule engines. Sadly, it is no longer …

Let's say I want to have a somewhat genereric CRUD-app: A database, some application logic, a login system, logging/telemetry and a UI. What kind of stack should I use so that tool…

This is insane. The project includes the hardware (GHz-capable RF-generation and measurement), firmware (FPGA) and Software (a cpp GUI). Surely that can't be all from one person?

Is there a way I can give feedback on wrong labels? The easy questions seem to be correct most (all?) of the time, but I noticed a few errors in the labelling of the complex questi…

If memory serves correctly, Aldi Nord was one of the last big supermarket chains in Germany to introduce scanners at the registers (2003?), because their existing system was simply…

After skimming the second paper, I still don't understand how precision mass measurements come into play here. They mention Cavendish-type measurements, but they are used for measu…

I really like https://sequencediagram.org/ - syntax is really close to PlantUML - it's rendered in the browser -> immediate feedback - great autocomplete and syntax-check in the co…

Note that the resistance of superconductors is 0 only for DC currents. The AC resistance is not 0 and typically gets larger for higher frequencies!

Making a GUI that is based on HTML and CSS and JS is also an... experience. I have some (ancient) experience in RAD. Once per year I try picking up React/Vue/Angular or whatever is…

I love gooey: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey It allows me to quickly slap a GUI on an existing script that accepts command-line-arguments. In the end, I get the best of both w…

For me it is a combination of age, having kids, having moved around, and general deterioration of the social fabric. Especially church-related events are mostly absent in my social…

If the blue dots represent the data and if the yellow line represents the model -- doesn't the picture show an obviously bad fit?

I disagree: "Ax = b" is a statement. It does not need to be true. This is quite useful and often used for "proofs by contradiction".

But wouldn't this solution mean that once there is a small glitch in the system, say due to higher load than normal, there are 2x the requests and the system goes down completely? …

There was another interesting publication about Alzheimer's Desease last week: It appears to be possible to detect the misfolded amyloid‐β protein in a blood sample many years befo…